A First-Hand Report on Hunting Wisent and Russian Lynx(posted January - 2012)

In his first report filed with The Hunting Report, new subscriber Jan Kristian Øestergaard from Denmark has broken new ground: our first subscriber report ever on a hunt for European bison (wisent), our first report ever on a hunt for Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) in Russia and only our second boots-on-the-ground report on hunting in the former Soviet state, now Republic of Belarus.

Longtime Hunting Report subscribers will remember former European correspondent Christophe Schule's 2003 article The "Real Skinny" On The European Wisent, thoroughly detailing the then-available hunting opportunities for this virtually-unknown trophy. In 2008, we also reported on a "North American style" hunt for European moose in Belarus (Article 2147), based largely on a report by subscriber and correspondent J.Y. Jones. Belarus, the most "Russian" of the former Soviet satellites, is located east of Poland, south of Lithuania and Latvia, and north of Ukraine.....